Terms and conditions of use
Bartholomaeus Spranger and his wife Christina Muller
(1600)
Medium
engraving and pen and ink
Measurements
28.2 × 41.6 cm (image) 29.3 × 41.6 cm (image and text) 30.1 × 42.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1963
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 339; Hollstein 332, i/ii
Edition
1st of 2 states
Inscription
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) u.l.: VIVIT NVMINE ET NOMINE
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: MORS INIQVA, QVID TANTVM / DECVS RAPIS? PIETAS ÆQVA, / QVÆ ET MOR TVAM SERVAS
printed (circularly) in ink (in image) c.r.: CHRISTINA MVLLERINA VXOR B. SPRANGER
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: QVID ANTE DIEM VVLTIS? TE / TEMPVS VETAT OCCIDERE. TE / ARTES VOLVT CLARÆ CLARIOREM
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: ANIMVS MARITI / ANIMAM TVAM (M underlined) / SEQVITVR NONDV / ASSEQVITVR. ET / LICET SECVM SVA / ABIICIAT: TE NON / RECOLLIGIT.
printed in ink l.l.: Priuatas lacrymas Bart. Sprangeri Egid. Sadeler miratus artem e amantem redamans, publicas fecit: e / eidem promutua beneuolentia dedicauit. Pragæ Anno Seculari.
Accession Number
1321-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists (visual artists) dead (people) double portraits effigies (general portraits) Father Time (allegorical character) memento mori spouses Spranger, Bartholomäus
Movements
Baroque